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Welcome to the Westside church’s special Monday Morning Coffee podcast with Mark Roberts. Mark is a disciple, a husband, father and grand dad, as well as a certified coffee geek, fan of CS Lewis’ writings and he loves his big red Jeep. He’s also the preacher for Westside church.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to the West Side Church's
special Monday Morning CoffeePodcast.
On this podcast, our preacher,Mark Roberts, will help you get
your week started right with alook back at yesterday's sermon
so that we can think througheach other and better work the
applications into our dailylife.
(00:27):
Mark will then look forward intothis week's final reading so
that we can know what to expectand watch for.
And he may have some extra bonusthoughts from time to time.
So grab a cup of coffee as westart the week together on
Monday morning coffee with Mark.
SPEAKER_01 (00:57):
Got some great coffee here.
I've got my Bible open.
We're thinking about the 110thPsalm, which was a big part of
yesterday.
Thinking a little bit more aboutthat Prodigal Son sermon and the
Prodigal's Father.
I preached that in the 1040yesterday.
It's time to get the weekstarted.
It's time to keep pushing allthe things that we talked about
yesterday into daily living andmaking sure that we're actually
(01:20):
making use of the spiritualmomentum that was created
yesterday.
So grab your Bible, grab yourcoffee, let's grow together.
Yesterday in the 1040, I talkedabout having a prodigal in your
family, especially when theprodigal is your child.
That's a really tough area, andthat's hard.
(01:41):
I hope I did not create allkinds of difficulties, big
feelings with parents who arethinking a lot about a child
that's away from the Lord.
But it's something we need tothink about.
And I'll just give you an extrathought now that maybe will
expand and help us to continueto make good use of that.
And that is we need to thinkabout that the father didn't in
Luke 15, he did not have justone prodigal.
(02:02):
He had two.
The older brother never lefthome, but he was lost, lost in
resentment, lost in pride, lostin his own sense of superiority.
He didn't run away to the farcountry, but he was running away
inside.
And maybe had run away beforethe prodigal even acted out his
own story.
I've said for a long time, bothof these boys are lost because
(02:23):
they're outside the father'shouse.
Now here's what matters if youhave a prodigal.
The father didn't give up oneither son.
He ran to the younger son and hewent out to the older son.
He pleaded with that rebelliousboy, he pleaded with the
self-righteous boy.
He met both of them where theywere.
If God wants you to mirroranything in this parable, learn
(02:45):
anything from this parable, it'snot that you have to be perfect,
it's that you need to you needto pursue.
It's not about control, it'sabout compassion, and it's
certainly not about panicking,it's about patience, it's about
continuing to be there,continuing to hold that door
open when the prodigal isfinally willing to turn around.
Remember, you can't fix anybody,well, except yourself, and you
(03:09):
certainly can't fix theprodigal's heart.
But you could be ready toencourage that prodigal to do
right every way possible.
I will never forget when my momcalled and said she had talked
to my brother Chris, and he helived in a different city, kind
of away from the rest of thefamily, and he said that he
couldn't find his Bible, andthat he'd been wanting to read
(03:29):
his Bible, but somehow, in allthe crazy chaos of his life,
he'd lost his Bible.
And mom simply said, Son, I'llbuy you a Bible.
And she did.
It was the first step in a longroad home.
And what happened there was momsignaled to Chris that if he
wanted to do right, we wouldhelp him.
We would do more than meet himhalfway.
(03:51):
We would not judge him, we wouldnot put him on probation, we
would run to meet him.
And in the end, I think that'swhat prodigals need to know.
We will meet them where theyare.
We will come more than halfway,we will help them any way we can
when they're ready to come homebecause we want them to come
(04:12):
back inside the Father's house.
I hope that helps you, and Ihope that you'll not give up
hope and not give up praying aswe continue to pray for the day
when we see our prodigals comehome.
Let's think about Bible reading.
Open your Bible to the book ofPsalms.
(04:48):
So today is Monday, and ourreading for Monday is the 110th
Psalm.
What am I going to say aboutPsalm 110 when I said everything
that I could say possibly sayyesterday in the 9 o'clock?
Well, how about some coffeehere?
How about this?
Say two things here.
Premillennialists are certainthat Jesus has to return in the
(05:09):
future at some time to rule fromthe literal throne of David in
Jerusalem for a literal 1,000years.
Premillennialism is thatdoctrine that has the rapture.
You sometimes see that bumpersticker, this car will be
unmanned in case of rapture.
Many of your friends believe inthe rapture.
So it is essential that Jesus isnot reigning now.
He will reign later.
(05:32):
But what we will see as we'rereading in the New Testament
this week, what we will see isthat Psalm 110 promises that
Jesus is reigning at the righthand of God.
He is king and priest.
You can't break those two apart.
You can't.
Either he's king and priest, orhe is neither.
So this is an excellent place ifyou're having significant,
(05:55):
serious religious discussion.
This is not elevator talk, butif you're really sitting down
with somebody, read Psalm 110.
Jesus reigning and ruling now.
Everybody wants Jesus to be thehigh priest, but he also,
according to Psalm 110, is theking.
Now, the other thing that has tobe said about Psalm 110 is that
it majors in that already butnot yet tension that we find so
often in the Bible.
(06:16):
When we read in Psalm 110, whatwe will see is there's stuff
that's true right now and stuffthat is still on the way.
Jesus is seated at God's righthand now.
Jesus is reigning now, Jesus isour high priest now, but all of
his enemies have not yet beenmade a footstool, have they?
The final defeat of evil iscertain, but it is not yet
complete.
Sometimes we shove Psalm 110completely into the future.
(06:40):
A lot of modernistic liberalBible scholars shove it
completely into the past.
They don't want any kind ofprophecy going on.
So it's all about David's sons,even though, of course, much of
that language cannot possiblyfit any human being sitting on
the throne of David.
But we may run to the otherextreme.
We push everything over into thefuture.
I believe it certainly hasapplication to the New Testament
(07:00):
church right now, but I alsobelieve it won't be fully
consummated until the end.
And reading with that lens willincrease our confidence in
Christ's present rule and how heserves us as our high priest.
But it also explains why theworld is still broken.
The New Testament has lots ofnow but not fully or now but not
(07:22):
yet tension.
Pay attention to that.
Watch for that as we read thesereferences this week.
Our reading for Monday, Psalm110.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Welcome to Tuesday, and now weare in the New Testament.
Matthew chapter 22, verses 34 to46 is our Tuesday reading.
And we will get to talk aboutthis tonight on Zoom.
(07:44):
Westsiders, see you on Zoom at 7o'clock tonight.
This is our last Zoom for theyear.
We'll take a break for theholidays, everything that's
going on with all of that.
But tonight we are in Matthewchapter, well, not tonight.
Today we are in Matthew chapter22, verses 34 to 46.
As you're looking at that text,it begins with the question,
what's the greatest commandment?
Which Jesus easily answers.
(08:05):
And then look at verse 41.
Now, while the Pharisees weregathered together.
See the continuation there?
That's the key.
They're asking questions.
Jesus says, I have a question.
Let's talk about the Messiah,verse 42.
Whose son will he be?
Now that's a softball question.
Hey, no problem there.
We got that.
Yeah, we know that.
He is certainly going to be ofthe lineage of David.
(08:27):
2 Samuel chapter 7, we know hewill be the son of David.
So then Jesus says, How is it,verse 43, that David in the
Spirit, there you go, Psalm 110,it's inspired, says, and here
comes the quote out of Psalm110.
The Lord said to my Lord, Sit atmy right hand until I put your
enemies under your feet.
So the Lord there in Psalm 110is Jehovah.
(08:50):
Jehovah said to my master or tomy Lord, that that was hard for
the Jews to wrap their mindsaround.
What's the deal?
One scholar said, if the Messiahis the son of David and
therefore inferior and less thanDavid, why does David address
him as Lord?
It is astonishing that Davidshould call his son my Lord by
Jewish standards of familialrespect.
(09:11):
It is rather the son who wouldrefer to the Father as Lord.
The first is clearly seen asJehovah.
Jesus is asking, who's thesecond?
And so the Jews know that thisPsalm applied to David's
children, the ones that ruledand reigned on David's throne.
Yet there's more to it thanthat, Jesus is saying, and Jesus
is challenging them to realizethat the Messiah would be much
(09:34):
more than they had thought.
Yes, he would be a son of David,but there's only one way he can
be David's son and still begreater than David.
And that would be for him to bedivine, for him to be deity.
That is what Jesus is trying tohelp them see, and that is what
Psalm 10 is doing in Matthewchapter 22.
(09:57):
Our reading for Monday, Matthewchapter 22, verses 34 to 46.
See you tonight, Westsiders, onthe Zoom call.
It's Wednesday.
It is Wednesday, and our readingfor today is Hebrews chapter 1.
We will read all of Hebrewschapter 1.
A couple of things here as weget underway.
The first four verses of Hebrewschapter 1 is one complete
(10:18):
sentence.
It's a long sentence talkingabout the wonders of Jesus and
the glory of Jesus.
And I think many times the bookof Hebrews has been taught, or
the characterization of the bookof Hebrews, is people were
abandoning Christianity andgoing back to Judaism.
I think that's half right andhalf wrong.
I think there is a temptationhere to abandon Christianity,
but I don't think so much it'sabout going back to Judaism.
(10:40):
That's not where this book is.
It's just about perseverance andendurance and not giving up on
Christianity entirely.
And I think sometimes we talkabout Hebrews too much about
going back to Judaism.
I'm not sure that's really wherethis is going to land.
One writer has said, especiallycoming out of the first chapter
of Hebrews, that there seems tohave been some controversy about
worshiping angels.
And that may be at the forefrontof some of this early discussion
(11:03):
in Hebrews.
As you read down through Hebrewsthe first chapter, you'll see
there's plenty here about Jesusbeing greater than angels.
In fact, you can get sevencharacteristics of Jesus out of
chapter one.
Just watch this as you readthrough.
He is the heir of everything, heis the creator.
He is the exact radiance of hisglory, of God's glory.
(11:25):
He has the character, the exactimage of God.
He is the sustainer.
The whole universe is in hishand.
He is the redeemer, and he isthe king.
He is royally seated as God.
And that is where we need togive our attention.
Verse 13, as the Hebrew writerreally pushes this idea that
Jesus is superior to angels, weget the quotation from Psalm
(11:46):
110, verse 1.
There, verse 13, to which of theangels has he ever said, Sit at
my right hand until I make yourenemies a footstool for your
feet?
Jesus is not an angel.
God would never say that to anyangel.
Instead, this is reserved forJesus, who is the Son.
Our reading for Wednesday,Hebrews chapter 1, with a
special emphasis on Psalm 110and the quotation in verse 13.
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The reading for Wednesday isHebrews chapter 1.
It's Thursday.
It's Thursday, and our readingis Ephesians chapter 1, verses
15 to 23.
The reading for Thursday,Ephesians 1, 15 to 23.
Please make certain that youcatch in verse 15 that this is
about a prayer.
I am ceasing.
Well, goodness, I can't readmore coffee.
(12:32):
Coffee is the answer.
Sometimes early in the morning,you need coffee to make coffee,
and you need coffee to be ableto read your Bible.
For this reason, because I'veheard of your faith and your
love, I don't cease now, verse16, to give thanks for you,
remembering you and my prayers.
And this is what he is praying.
That the God of our Lord JesusChrist, the Father of glory, may
give you the spirit of wisdom.
(12:52):
And he works on through there,the eyes of your heart being
enlightened.
You may know your hope.
You may know the riches, verse18, the greatness of his power.
Beginning in verse 19, there'sjust a ton of power words here.
It gets very powerful.
One writer said, How did Paulexpect the Ephesians to come to
know the surpassing greatness ofthe power of God?
(13:13):
Because he's given a publicdemonstration of it in the
resurrection and exaltation ofChrist, verses 20 to 23.
Paul actually refers to threesuccessive events.
First, he raised him from thedead, front part of verse 20.
Secondly, he made him sit at hisright hand in the heavenly
places, far above allcompetitors, verses 20, the end,
into verse 21.
(13:33):
And then he's put all thingsunder his feet, verse 22.
And then thirdly, he made himhead over all things for the
church, which is his body.
Well, did you hear that businessthen about his seated at the
right hand?
Yes, that's verse 20.
He is seated at seated him athis right hand in the heavenly
places.
There it is.
Yes, that is Psalm 110.
There's the echo of Psalm 110right there, and the exaltation
(13:55):
of Jesus Christ.
Christ's authority is not justnow, though, it is for the age
to come, verse 21.
Not only in this age, but alsoin the one to come.
He is supreme.
He is the head of the church.
He has all authority, and he hasbeen seated at the right hand.
Psalm 110 says that will happen.
Paul says it has happened.
(14:18):
Ephesians chapter 1, verse 20.
Our reading today in Ephesians,the first chapter, verses 15 to
23.
It's Friday.
It is Friday.
We made it through another week.
Feeling good about that.
I know that you are glad to behearing it is Friday.
It's Colossians chapter 3,verses 1 to 17 that we are
reading today, and this is agreat place for us to finish the
(14:41):
reading this week.
We don't want Psalm 110 tobecome dry doctrine, something
that we now know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus is kingand priest and seated at the
right hand.
Okay, whatever.
No, no, it's not whatever.
It affects us directly in how welive.
And the Colossian reading givesus that in spades.
Colossians 3, verse 1, if thenyou've been raised with Christ,
(15:02):
seek the things that are abovewhere Christ is, seated at the
right hand of God.
There it is.
There's the Psalm 110 connectionthat we are looking for.
But what happens next?
Well, Paul talks about thingsthat we can't be doing anymore,
things to put to death, notablyabout verse 5 through verse 11.
(15:23):
And then he talks about thethings that we need to do,
things that we ought to be busywith in verses 12 to 17.
So take a look at verse 5.
Also look at verse 8.
That's called a vice list.
Those are very common outside ofScripture, things that people
shouldn't be involved in.
And there are a number of vicelists in Scripture.
Galatians 5, the works of theflesh.
That's a vice list.
(15:43):
Here's a list of thingsChristians are not to be part
of.
And then, as I said in verse 12,we start getting this is what we
are to be part of.
Put on then.
Holy and beloved is God's chosenones, compassion, heart,
compassionate hearts, kindness,humility, meekness, patience,
bearing one another.
He just works down throughthere.
This is who we are.
(16:03):
But all of it is connected towhat?
Jesus is supreme.
Jesus is seated at the righthand of God.
Jesus is our King and Lord.
Psalm 110 drives the Lordship ofJesus.
What a great note for us to bethinking about after working
with Psalm 10 all this week.
(16:24):
What a great time for us to bethinking about this.
Lots of people are pretty happyabout baby Jesus and seeing a
lot of baby Jesus stuff goingaround right now, but not
everybody's that big on KingJesus.
Colossians 3 reaches to Psalm110 and says, He is Lord, and we
need to obey him.
We're not going to do the stuffin verse 5 and verse 8,
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beginning in verse 9.
We are, we are about the thingsin verses 12 to 17, because
Jesus is Lord.
That's what Psalm 10 is pushingfor us in a very practical way
today.
The reading for Friday,Colossians chapter 1, verses,
no, Colossians chapter 3, verses1 to 17.
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Well, there you go.
That's the podcast for the week.
Thank you so much for listening.
Hope that the podcast is ablessing to you.
I'll tell you this (17:14):
it's a blessing to me to get to work on
this and think about this andfigure out how all these
readings come together and whatcan be said about it.
That'll help you as you beginyour day, or maybe you're
spending time on your lunchhour, maybe even as a family,
you're reading the Bibletogether in the evenings.
How can we make use of this sothat Bible reading becomes Bible
living?
Hope you're telling others aboutthe podcast.
(17:36):
This is a great time to beencouraging people to be about
daily Bible reading.
That'll be one of the big thingspeople want to do in the new
year.
So, as I always say, I'm MarkRoberts.
I want to go to heaven.
I want you to come too.
I'll see you on Monday with acup of coffee.
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Monday.
Hello, and welcome to the West Side Church's
special Monday Morning CoffeePodcast.
On this podcast, our preacher,Mark Roberts, will help you get
your week started right with alook back at yesterday's sermon
so that we can think througheach other and better work the
applications into our dailylife.
(00:27):
Mark will then look forward intothis week's final reading so
that we can know what to expectand watch for.
And he may have some extra bonusthoughts from time to time.
So grab a cup of coffee as westart the week together on
Monday morning coffee with Mark.
SPEAKER_01 (00:57):
Got some great coffee here.
I've got my Bible open.
We're thinking about the 110thPsalm, which was a big part of
yesterday.
Thinking a little bit more aboutthat Prodigal Son sermon and the
Prodigal's Father.
I preached that in the 1040yesterday.
It's time to get the weekstarted.
It's time to keep pushing allthe things that we talked about
yesterday into daily living andmaking sure that we're actually
(01:20):
making use of the spiritualmomentum that was created
yesterday.
So grab your Bible, grab yourcoffee, let's grow together.
Yesterday in the 1040, I talkedabout having a prodigal in your
family, especially when theprodigal is your child.
That's a really tough area, andthat's hard.
(01:41):
I hope I did not create allkinds of difficulties, big
feelings with parents who arethinking a lot about a child
that's away from the Lord.
But it's something we need tothink about.
And I'll just give you an extrathought now that maybe will
expand and help us to continueto make good use of that.
And that is we need to thinkabout that the father didn't in
Luke 15, he did not have justone prodigal.
(02:02):
He had two.
The older brother never lefthome, but he was lost, lost in
resentment, lost in pride, lostin his own sense of superiority.
He didn't run away to the farcountry, but he was running away
inside.
And maybe had run away beforethe prodigal even acted out his
own story.
I've said for a long time, bothof these boys are lost because
(02:23):
they're outside the father'shouse.
Now here's what matters if youhave a prodigal.
The father didn't give up oneither son.
He ran to the younger son and hewent out to the older son.
He pleaded with that rebelliousboy, he pleaded with the
self-righteous boy.
He met both of them where theywere.
If God wants you to mirroranything in this parable, learn
(02:45):
anything from this parable, it'snot that you have to be perfect,
it's that you need to you needto pursue.
It's not about control, it'sabout compassion, and it's
certainly not about panicking,it's about patience, it's about
continuing to be there,continuing to hold that door
open when the prodigal isfinally willing to turn around.
Remember, you can't fix anybody,well, except yourself, and you
(03:09):
certainly can't fix theprodigal's heart.
But you could be ready toencourage that prodigal to do
right every way possible.
I will never forget when my momcalled and said she had talked
to my brother Chris, and he helived in a different city, kind
of away from the rest of thefamily, and he said that he
couldn't find his Bible, andthat he'd been wanting to read
(03:29):
his Bible, but somehow, in allthe crazy chaos of his life,
he'd lost his Bible.
And mom simply said, Son, I'llbuy you a Bible.
And she did.
It was the first step in a longroad home.
And what happened there was momsignaled to Chris that if he
wanted to do right, we wouldhelp him.
We would do more than meet himhalfway.
(03:51):
We would not judge him, we wouldnot put him on probation, we
would run to meet him.
And in the end, I think that'swhat prodigals need to know.
We will meet them where theyare.
We will come more than halfway,we will help them any way we can
when they're ready to come homebecause we want them to come
(04:12):
back inside the Father's house.
I hope that helps you, and Ihope that you'll not give up
hope and not give up praying aswe continue to pray for the day
when we see our prodigals comehome.
Let's think about Bible reading.
Open your Bible to the book ofPsalms.
(04:48):
So today is Monday, and ourreading for Monday is the 110th
Psalm.
What am I going to say aboutPsalm 110 when I said everything
that I could say possibly sayyesterday in the 9 o'clock?
Well, how about some coffeehere?
How about this?
Say two things here.
Premillennialists are certainthat Jesus has to return in the
(05:09):
future at some time to rule fromthe literal throne of David in
Jerusalem for a literal 1,000years.
Premillennialism is thatdoctrine that has the rapture.
You sometimes see that bumpersticker, this car will be
unmanned in case of rapture.
Many of your friends believe inthe rapture.
So it is essential that Jesus isnot reigning now.
He will reign later.
(05:32):
But what we will see as we'rereading in the New Testament
this week, what we will see isthat Psalm 110 promises that
Jesus is reigning at the righthand of God.
He is king and priest.
You can't break those two apart.
You can't.
Either he's king and priest, orhe is neither.
So this is an excellent place ifyou're having significant,
(05:55):
serious religious discussion.
This is not elevator talk, butif you're really sitting down
with somebody, read Psalm 110.
Jesus reigning and ruling now.
Everybody wants Jesus to be thehigh priest, but he also,
according to Psalm 110, is theking.
Now, the other thing that has tobe said about Psalm 110 is that
it majors in that already butnot yet tension that we find so
often in the Bible.
(06:16):
When we read in Psalm 110, whatwe will see is there's stuff
that's true right now and stuffthat is still on the way.
Jesus is seated at God's righthand now.
Jesus is reigning now, Jesus isour high priest now, but all of
his enemies have not yet beenmade a footstool, have they?
The final defeat of evil iscertain, but it is not yet
complete.
Sometimes we shove Psalm 110completely into the future.
(06:40):
A lot of modernistic liberalBible scholars shove it
completely into the past.
They don't want any kind ofprophecy going on.
So it's all about David's sons,even though, of course, much of
that language cannot possiblyfit any human being sitting on
the throne of David.
But we may run to the otherextreme.
We push everything over into thefuture.
I believe it certainly hasapplication to the New Testament
(07:00):
church right now, but I alsobelieve it won't be fully
consummated until the end.
And reading with that lens willincrease our confidence in
Christ's present rule and how heserves us as our high priest.
But it also explains why theworld is still broken.
The New Testament has lots ofnow but not fully or now but not
(07:22):
yet tension.
Pay attention to that.
Watch for that as we read thesereferences this week.
Our reading for Monday, Psalm110.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Welcome to Tuesday, and now weare in the New Testament.
Matthew chapter 22, verses 34 to46 is our Tuesday reading.
And we will get to talk aboutthis tonight on Zoom.
(07:44):
Westsiders, see you on Zoom at 7o'clock tonight.
This is our last Zoom for theyear.
We'll take a break for theholidays, everything that's
going on with all of that.
But tonight we are in Matthewchapter, well, not tonight.
Today we are in Matthew chapter22, verses 34 to 46.
As you're looking at that text,it begins with the question,
what's the greatest commandment?
Which Jesus easily answers.
(08:05):
And then look at verse 41.
Now, while the Pharisees weregathered together.
See the continuation there?
That's the key.
They're asking questions.
Jesus says, I have a question.
Let's talk about the Messiah,verse 42.
Whose son will he be?
Now that's a softball question.
Hey, no problem there.
We got that.
Yeah, we know that.
He is certainly going to be ofthe lineage of David.
(08:27):
2 Samuel chapter 7, we know hewill be the son of David.
So then Jesus says, How is it,verse 43, that David in the
Spirit, there you go, Psalm 110,it's inspired, says, and here
comes the quote out of Psalm110.
The Lord said to my Lord, Sit atmy right hand until I put your
enemies under your feet.
So the Lord there in Psalm 110is Jehovah.
(08:50):
Jehovah said to my master or tomy Lord, that that was hard for
the Jews to wrap their mindsaround.
What's the deal?
One scholar said, if the Messiahis the son of David and
therefore inferior and less thanDavid, why does David address
him as Lord?
It is astonishing that Davidshould call his son my Lord by
Jewish standards of familialrespect.
(09:11):
It is rather the son who wouldrefer to the Father as Lord.
The first is clearly seen asJehovah.
Jesus is asking, who's thesecond?
And so the Jews know that thisPsalm applied to David's
children, the ones that ruledand reigned on David's throne.
Yet there's more to it thanthat, Jesus is saying, and Jesus
is challenging them to realizethat the Messiah would be much
(09:34):
more than they had thought.
Yes, he would be a son of David,but there's only one way he can
be David's son and still begreater than David.
And that would be for him to bedivine, for him to be deity.
That is what Jesus is trying tohelp them see, and that is what
Psalm 10 is doing in Matthewchapter 22.
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Our reading for Monday, Matthewchapter 22, verses 34 to 46.
See you tonight, Westsiders, onthe Zoom call.
It's Wednesday.
It is Wednesday, and our readingfor today is Hebrews chapter 1.
We will read all of Hebrewschapter 1.
A couple of things here as weget underway.
The first four verses of Hebrewschapter 1 is one complete
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sentence.
It's a long sentence talkingabout the wonders of Jesus and
the glory of Jesus.
And I think many times the bookof Hebrews has been taught, or
the characterization of the bookof Hebrews, is people were
abandoning Christianity andgoing back to Judaism.
I think that's half right andhalf wrong.
I think there is a temptationhere to abandon Christianity,
but I don't think so much it'sabout going back to Judaism.
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That's not where this book is.
It's just about perseverance andendurance and not giving up on
Christianity entirely.
And I think sometimes we talkabout Hebrews too much about
going back to Judaism.
I'm not sure that's really wherethis is going to land.
One writer has said, especiallycoming out of the first chapter
of Hebrews, that there seems tohave been some controversy about
worshiping angels.
And that may be at the forefrontof some of this early discussion
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in Hebrews.
As you read down through Hebrewsthe first chapter, you'll see
there's plenty here about Jesusbeing greater than angels.
In fact, you can get sevencharacteristics of Jesus out of
chapter one.
Just watch this as you readthrough.
He is the heir of everything, heis the creator.
He is the exact radiance of hisglory, of God's glory.
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He has the character, the exactimage of God.
He is the sustainer.
The whole universe is in hishand.
He is the redeemer, and he isthe king.
He is royally seated as God.
And that is where we need togive our attention.
Verse 13, as the Hebrew writerreally pushes this idea that
Jesus is superior to angels, weget the quotation from Psalm
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110, verse 1.
There, verse 13, to which of theangels has he ever said, Sit at
my right hand until I make yourenemies a footstool for your
feet?
Jesus is not an angel.
God would never say that to anyangel.
Instead, this is reserved forJesus, who is the Son.
Our reading for Wednesday,Hebrews chapter 1, with a
special emphasis on Psalm 110and the quotation in verse 13.
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The reading for Wednesday isHebrews chapter 1.
It's Thursday.
It's Thursday, and our readingis Ephesians chapter 1, verses
15 to 23.
The reading for Thursday,Ephesians 1, 15 to 23.
Please make certain that youcatch in verse 15 that this is
about a prayer.
I am ceasing.
Well, goodness, I can't readmore coffee.
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Coffee is the answer.
Sometimes early in the morning,you need coffee to make coffee,
and you need coffee to be ableto read your Bible.
For this reason, because I'veheard of your faith and your
love, I don't cease now, verse16, to give thanks for you,
remembering you and my prayers.
And this is what he is praying.
That the God of our Lord JesusChrist, the Father of glory, may
give you the spirit of wisdom.
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And he works on through there,the eyes of your heart being
enlightened.
You may know your hope.
You may know the riches, verse18, the greatness of his power.
Beginning in verse 19, there'sjust a ton of power words here.
It gets very powerful.
One writer said, How did Paulexpect the Ephesians to come to
know the surpassing greatness ofthe power of God?
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Because he's given a publicdemonstration of it in the
resurrection and exaltation ofChrist, verses 20 to 23.
Paul actually refers to threesuccessive events.
First, he raised him from thedead, front part of verse 20.
Secondly, he made him sit at hisright hand in the heavenly
places, far above allcompetitors, verses 20, the end,
into verse 21.
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And then he's put all thingsunder his feet, verse 22.
And then thirdly, he made himhead over all things for the
church, which is his body.
Well, did you hear that businessthen about his seated at the
right hand?
Yes, that's verse 20.
He is seated at seated him athis right hand in the heavenly
places.
There it is.
Yes, that is Psalm 110.
There's the echo of Psalm 110right there, and the exaltation
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of Jesus Christ.
Christ's authority is not justnow, though, it is for the age
to come, verse 21.
Not only in this age, but alsoin the one to come.
He is supreme.
He is the head of the church.
He has all authority, and he hasbeen seated at the right hand.
Psalm 110 says that will happen.
Paul says it has happened.
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Ephesians chapter 1, verse 20.
Our reading today in Ephesians,the first chapter, verses 15 to
23.
It's Friday.
It is Friday.
We made it through another week.
Feeling good about that.
I know that you are glad to behearing it is Friday.
It's Colossians chapter 3,verses 1 to 17 that we are
reading today, and this is agreat place for us to finish the
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reading this week.
We don't want Psalm 110 tobecome dry doctrine, something
that we now know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus is kingand priest and seated at the
right hand.
Okay, whatever.
No, no, it's not whatever.
It affects us directly in how welive.
And the Colossian reading givesus that in spades.
Colossians 3, verse 1, if thenyou've been raised with Christ,
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seek the things that are abovewhere Christ is, seated at the
right hand of God.
There it is.
There's the Psalm 110 connectionthat we are looking for.
But what happens next?
Well, Paul talks about thingsthat we can't be doing anymore,
things to put to death, notablyabout verse 5 through verse 11.
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And then he talks about thethings that we need to do,
things that we ought to be busywith in verses 12 to 17.
So take a look at verse 5.
Also look at verse 8.
That's called a vice list.
Those are very common outside ofScripture, things that people
shouldn't be involved in.
And there are a number of vicelists in Scripture.
Galatians 5, the works of theflesh.
That's a vice list.
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Here's a list of thingsChristians are not to be part
of.
And then, as I said in verse 12,we start getting this is what we
are to be part of.
Put on then.
Holy and beloved is God's chosenones, compassion, heart,
compassionate hearts, kindness,humility, meekness, patience,
bearing one another.
He just works down throughthere.
This is who we are.
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But all of it is connected towhat?
Jesus is supreme.
Jesus is seated at the righthand of God.
Jesus is our King and Lord.
Psalm 110 drives the Lordship ofJesus.
What a great note for us to bethinking about after working
with Psalm 10 all this week.
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What a great time for us to bethinking about this.
Lots of people are pretty happyabout baby Jesus and seeing a
lot of baby Jesus stuff goingaround right now, but not
everybody's that big on KingJesus.
Colossians 3 reaches to Psalm110 and says, He is Lord, and we
need to obey him.
We're not going to do the stuffin verse 5 and verse 8,
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beginning in verse 9.
We are, we are about the thingsin verses 12 to 17, because
Jesus is Lord.
That's what Psalm 10 is pushingfor us in a very practical way
today.
The reading for Friday,Colossians chapter 1, verses,
no, Colossians chapter 3, verses1 to 17.
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Well, there you go.
That's the podcast for the week.
Thank you so much for listening.
Hope that the podcast is ablessing to you.
I'll tell you this (17:14):
it's a blessing to me to get to work on
this and think about this andfigure out how all these
readings come together and whatcan be said about it.
That'll help you as you beginyour day, or maybe you're
spending time on your lunchhour, maybe even as a family,
you're reading the Bibletogether in the evenings.
How can we make use of this sothat Bible reading becomes Bible
living?
Hope you're telling others aboutthe podcast.
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This is a great time to beencouraging people to be about
daily Bible reading.
That'll be one of the big thingspeople want to do in the new
year.
So, as I always say, I'm MarkRoberts.
I want to go to heaven.
I want you to come too.
I'll see you on Monday with acup of coffee.
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